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The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.

Rom Braslavski was on leave from his service as a soldier in the Israeli military and was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival when Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 others as hostages.

Kirsty Tullett-Jones, director of marketing and communications for Discover Leicester Square, said it was "about time we added a rom com statue to the line-up".

Rom Braslavski was whipped, beaten and offered food to convert to Islam.

Rom Braslavski, an Israeli-German from Jerusalem, was working as a security guard at the Supernova music festival, when it was attacked in the early morning of October 7.